Listen to the conversation between Samir and Adlane, a father and son, who explain what it means to migrate. Issa Watanabe has created without a single word, one of the most harrowing portrayals of migration I’ve seen in a book. Capitalism relies on labour to meet its drive for ever more growth, ever more accumulation, and we’ve seen huge movements of people to meet it. Miller is attracted to the idea that there is a ‘wander lust’ gene; but even absent that, most of us, outside of sub-Saharan Africa, carry with us a little Neanderthal DNA.

Agadez, the legendary gateway to the desert, has become a transit city for many migrants trying to reach Libya to cross the Mediterranean to Italy. The Migration Museum is looking for up to 8 people to take part in an exciting project that highlights the extraordinary role that people with migrant heritage have played in shaping and sustaining the NHS – and caring for us throughout our lives. What prompted Cornish emigrants to build new lives and communities in Mexico during the 19th century – and what were some of the unexpected legacies of this migration on both sides of the Atlantic? This installation is my own unique perspective on growing up in Lewisham as the child of parents from the Windrush generation, reflecting on the places and the forgotten heroes of Lewisham’s past and present that have shaped my life.Our Head of Learning and Partnerships Emily Miller introduces the Dunera display from our Departures exhibition, as part of the Jewish Museum’s Passover Object Series of talks. He has written or reviewed for a wide range of other publications including The Economist, The Quietus, Slightly Foxed, The Spectator, and The Times. stars…hauntingly beautiful…We bring our own experiences to this book, and some readers may find this image challenging. Andrew Steeds has been involved with the Migration Museum as a volunteer, trustee and as our Projects Manager for the best part of a decade. If you agree that we all deserve to live in safety, then please Stand As One and sign our petition today.

This video tells the story of the competition, featuring interviews with the six shortlisted teams and footage of the finals event.

enslavement, the British Empire, the Industrial Revolution close Industrial Revolution The process that transformed manufacturing from handmade to machine-made, mass-produced goods using water, steam and coal power transported by canal, rail and steamship. From the beginning of the 17th century when the first ships of the English East India Company set sail from London, tens of thousands of men from Britain ventured out to live an expat life in a country that was completely different to anything they had previously known. The Vikings were more peaceable than we were once taught; the Vandals may have looted Rome in 455 CE, but they didn’t vandalise anything. Yaya has big, bright eyes, as if his spirit is fighting to keep him from losing hope while his body is being consumed by hunger and the frustration of waiting.

The Migration Museum has two locations: in Lewisham, south-east London; and a new pop-up museum in Leeds. Fortunately, though Sam Miller is sort of into a lot of the same things I am and therefore puts a little more of a radical spin on the topic than the typical travelogue.She ran all the way to Paris, where, in the 1920s, she found a job as an actor and dancer, and a home. In France, Marseilles is still sometimes known as La Cité Phocéene after its founders from Phocaea, now the Turkish coastal town of Foça. Miller thinks that humans naturally emigrate, and our unease about this is the result of pastoralism, cities, and other historical accidents.

He illustrates this point by explaining key events in our history such as the first migration out of Africa, the creation of western civilization, and the impacts of colonialism and slavery. In a paradox later repeated across millennia, the burgeoning city-state found in them an economic buttress and an ideological foil. Mass emigration from England first took off in the 17th century with the colonisation of America and the Caribbean. He studied History at Cambridge University and Politics at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies, before joining the BBC in 1986, for which he has worked, on and off, ever since.He wants Migrants: The Story of Us All to be seen as an alternative history of the world, in which humans migrate for a wide range of reasons: not just because of civil war, or poverty or climate change but also out of curiosity and a sense of adventure. The story is powerfully told, each illustration showing the migrants accepting each other and working together to try to survive and reach safety, highlighting the irrelevance of difference as they work for a common goal. On the contrary, says Miller: humankind is the migratory species par excellence, settling every continent bar Antarctica, not once, but many times over. Halfway up the high street in Totnes, a small town on the river Dart in Devon, a modest stone is set into the edge of the road. Dr Trotter chose a study for this painting as the cover image for her book ‘The Married Widows of Cornwall ’.